Quote:Let me use the main "villain" of my story and current Table-top game as an example. Apparently, he's become so famous as a character within our table top games, his reputation has spread to other games that I'm not even a part of as an awesome character/villain. Many people vehemently portray him as the main NPC hero of the story, and this is OOCly.
I play in the tabletop game Zane is talking about and honestly this is the only villain I have ever enjoyed playing against. At one point in the game, right before he was revealed to the world as the bad guy, my character was put against him in a non-lethal tournament. Although there was no way my character could have physically bested him, she wrote down on a piece of paper exactly how someone could beat him. When their match began, she made a speech stating that "X" was powerful and had the makings of a great leader. She built him up as someone the people should follow and respect, quietly made a comment about how he should endeavor to deserve such a position, and then gave him the note describing the weakness in his fighting style (which I came up with all on my own OOC and impressed everyone with the tactic. Points for me ^^).
He took the note, read it with a straight face, accepted the praise from the crowd, complimented my character, and left the tournament arena... then put her on the list of people he needed to get rid of.
I know that was a lot to read, but this scene was simply fun to do. I had an enjoyable time figuring out the strategy, a great time roleplaying this huge speech with just a hint of a politely worded threat at the end, and watching OOC everyone's reaction to the scene. It made it fun to be a good guy (girl) for once.
Conversely I have a friend in the same game who god-mods, meta-games, pushes every single rule and tries to make his character infallible. A year ago my character won against his and he still goes on about it. Not only that but after that event all his characters disliked mine because he decided they got together and talked about it (some of those characters didn't even like each other beforehand). His character is just simply not fun to play against and lately he's mostly been playing a storyline on his own because no one wants to interact with him IC.
Sorry, this turned out way longer then it should have ^^;; My whole point is that a good villain should be someone fun to play against and should be the kind of person OOC that everyone loves to hate.
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